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Virus battery could power cars, electronic devices

Virus battery could power cars, electronic devices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery.





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Nanoball Batteries Could Charge Electric Cars in 5 Minutes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have designed a new battery that can recharge devices about 100 times faster than conventional lithium ion batteries. The design could lead to electric car batteries that ...


Using waste to recover waste uranium

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers at Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines. The same technology ...


Iron isotopes as a tool in oceanography

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New research involving scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) highlights the potential utility of iron isotopes for addressing important questions in ocean science. The findings are published ...


Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic

Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists including researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and the University of Essex have discovered that interactions between iron supply, transported through the atmosphere from ...


Yeast in an Egg Shell

Chemistry /

created Mar 28, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Nature’s eggshells have inspired Chinese researchers: A team led by Ruikang Tang at Zhejiang University have successfully equipped living yeast cells with an artificial mineral coating. As reported in the journal Angewandte Ch ...


Common gene variant found to regulate iron levels

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team including researchers at UQ's Diamantina Institute and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research has identified a new variant of a gene that helps to regulate iron and haemoglobin ...


Give children iron supplements: They don't increase malaria risk

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Iron supplements do not increase the likelihood of contracting malaria and should not be withheld from children at risk of the disease, despite World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines to the contrary, a new review by Cochrane ...


Iron regulates the TLR4 inflammatory signaling pathway

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Iron is a micronutrient essential to the survival of both humans and disease-causing microbes. Changes in iron levels therefore affect the severity of infectious diseases. For example, individuals with mutations in their ...


Adding simehicone to sodium phosphate bowel preparation benefits colonscopy?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bowel preparation has been reported inadequate in 10%-75% of colonoscopic examinations. None of the preparations reached all the requirements of safety, acceptance to patients with negligible discomfort, and rapid cleansing. ...


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Red, White Wine, Fish And Science

Chemistry / Other

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The long-standing rule of matching wine and food -- red wine with red meat and white wine with fish -- actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, ...



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